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A bunch of high school students in Colorado walked out in protest of some proposed changes to the US history curriculum. Here’s an excerpt from the Mediaite article:

‘This is merely a proposal, it has not been instituted yet. But the proposal involves the promotion of “citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” while not covering or barely glossing over material that would “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law.’

Okay. Let that sink in for a second. Now… public high schools in this district want to instruct young minds in all the positives about America while ignoring any of the bad stuff. Where oh where to start?

1. Promotion of citizenship: According to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol, Faux News airheads (female and male) and all the other armchair warrior idiots would have you believe that the good ol’ USA is the greatest fucking thing since Jesus. Is it true? Fuck no it isn’t true. To be fair, there are a lot of good things about America and yes, Americans enjoy far more freedom than millions (billions?) of others, but give me a fucking break.There are many countries where the people enjoy far more freedom, have a higher standard of living, and their neighbors are far less violent. The US has some of the most expensive medical care in the developed world and it’s the most violent country in the developed world.

The US is the only country that levies an income tax based on citizenship. No matter where you live. No matter how long you haven’t lived in the US, no matter how long it’s been since you even visited the US, you must pay taxes to the US government as well as the local taxes where you live. This is the reason there are more and more expats renouncing their citizenship. America is hated in many parts of the world and traveling on a US passport isn’t ideal. I don’t want to be kidnapped just so I can be beheaded on television because of America’s murderous foreign policy.

Also, I’d hazard a guess that when these folks (school administrators) talk about citizenship, they mean being a good citizen. You know, ‘see something, say something’ just like the Stasi and the KGB taught children raised under the horrors of communism. Be a good citizen and love your government.

2. Patriotism: Again, this is about loyalty to a government and not your family, neighbors, and friends. Patriotism is an excuse that’s been used to justify mass murder, genocide, war profiteering, and being a fucking Republican. USA! USA! USA!

3. Essentials and benefits of the free market system: They mean crony capitalism or mercantilism as Murray Rothbard called it. The US does not have a free market system and nobody in any government type job (like teachers) knows what the free market is and they certainly aren’t going to promote it. If public school teachers had to work in the free market, half the fuckers would be out of a job, because they’re just plain shitty teachers. There’s a reason America has the worst public education system in the free world and a big part of that reason is the teachers. No, it isn’t about funding and only shitty teachers bring that up.

A free market system (capitalism) would have let the auto industry implode along with many banks and other businesses in 2008. A crony system like that employed in America (this is what campaign donations are for) stole money from taxpayers and fed it to businesses that should have been allowed to go bankrupt. That’s what happens in the opposite of a free market system. In an actual free market system, consumers choose whom to do business with and businesses that are run poorly implode. Buh bye.

A free market system would not see billions in taxpayer dollars funneled to special interests whose businesses would simply go bust because the consumer doesn’t want the product. There’s a reason taxpayers have to fund companies that make solar panels and windmills and that’s because they’re a totally inefficient means of generating power for something like the US grid. I have panels on my roof and they work great for a single home. For the entire US? Um, no.

Remember that not so affordable care act? Written by special interests (medical insurance) who have since seen their profits explode. The FACTA bill? Written by Wall Street and other financial interests and didn’t (wow, surprise, surprise) do anything to prohibit very wealthy people from keeping their money, but it did fuck over the middle class expats. Again.

Also, many people are always bitching about de-regulation. Regulations are, for the most part, prizes awarded to special interests to stifle competition. There’s nothing free market about any of this.

4. Respect for authority: Do what you’re told mundane. Now the shitty news propagandists in the US mainstream media showed all kinds of asshole Marxists during the Occupy protests. Remember? What they didn’t show much of was how the majority of protestors were peaceful. They weren’t Marxists, and they didn’t act like shit heads (so that means in the US, they didn’t make the news because that’s not entertaining). Who remembers this?

I do.

When they say that want to teach ‘respect for authority’ what they mean is they want all you bad little mother fuckers who think for yourselves to knock that shit off and comply.

‘But it was alright, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.’ George Orwell – 1984

5. Respect for individual rights: The US doesn’t really have a good track record on individual rights. Yeah, sure. American’s enjoy more rights than people in say, North Korea, but those ‘authority’ figures abuse your rights every fucking day and the courts let them.

The US government has granted the President the power to act as judge, jury, and executioner. The President can, and has, declared anybody he want’s a terrorist or a threat and have them killed without so much as ever presenting a single document for evidence of guilt. Obama says he wouldn’t do such a thing. He already has and he’s a pathological liar so… fuck him. Does Obama think about individual rights when he’s drone bombing innocent children in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere? Yeah right.

The US loves to spout about democracy and individual rights, but props up dictators and murderers so long as they do Washington’s bidding. The recent coup in Ukraine saw the US backed fascists and neo-nazis come to power, while ousting a democratically elected president. Adding insult to injury the US Congress hosted their new puppet Victor Poroshenko, a man who is using the Ukrainian military to kill as many of his own people as he can. He came to the US, received a rousing approval before asking the US government to steal more money from US taxpayers and give it to him along with more and more weapons.

According to the same article the new history curriculum would either not cover or gloss over ‘material that would “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law.’

By civil disorder or social strike they mean protesting. See above for how authority feels about your right to protest.

1st Amendment to the United States Constitution:

‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.‘

Despite what some would have you believe, this is a very simple and clearly enunciated sentence. Been to a US public university in the past, oh, decade? They have a limited number of free speech zones. Small areas delegated to letting students enjoy their fucking Constitutional right to free speech. Why? Mostly because a bunch of left-wing pussies can’t tolerate having their idiotic views challenged so they bitch about being offended. Did I mention they were pussies?

Public school administrators in this Colorado school district are attempting to indoctrinate, yes indoctrinate, their students into loving the state and not ever voicing discontent. You have a right to protest and they seem to want you to feel that it’s wrong hence their wanting to teach those ideals which they deem positive. Anything not approved of as positive is of course, negative.

Those that lean towards the political right will view this as good because God knows, America has never done anything bad and if the US happened to do something bad, well, we were trying to do good, so fuck off complainers. It does no good to talk to right-wingers about the need to study real history because like I said, they tend to view America as the second coming of Christ.

There are some on the political left that aren’t entirely fucking hypocrites who will see this for what it is. A program straight out of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately there are more hypocrite lefties then not and as long as the lying child murderer Obama is in charge, this will be welcome because government is good until a Republican is in charge.

After the US government armed and trained ISIL (or ISIS, or IS, or Mad Mohamed Butchers) to fight Syria’s Assad, they’ve since turned and we now find ourselves fighting them. Much the same way the US government created Al Qaeda and ended up fighting them.

Naturally, Republicans are demanding more ground forces and war, WAR, WAR!!!! Because if there’s one thing a Republican knows how to do, it’s sending other people’s children to die for the weapons makers.

Obama doesn’t really want to fight ISIL (and you can see that) so he’s only gonna arm ‘moderates’ in Syria and help Iraq with limited troops and planes. He (Obama) loves dropping bombs from planes, or drones. Doesn’t matter. He gets to be seen as someone who’s doing something while attempting not to get involved. And, if innocent children happen to get blown to hell, well fuck em right? It’s the American way.

Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry, who is arguably the most retarded fucking SoS in history, went before Congress and told them ‘No Boots On The Ground’… or something.

He stated:

‘arming the moderate opposition in Syria was the “best counterweight” against ISIL and emphasized to lawmakers: “ISIL must be defeated. Period. End of story.’

Um, it was the moderates you already armed that became ISIL you dumb fucking twat. The best counter weight to ISIL is and has always been Assad and the Syrian army. You know, the Assad and his army the US government has been attempting to overthrow.

Another thing comes to mind. The US has been arming and equipping various friendly (as friendly as those duplicitous cunt holes in the ME can be) governments, so why aren’t they doing something? ISIL can make all the empty threats they want against the US, but it seems highly unlikely they’ll come here and do anything of significance. They want to be a state right? In order for them to become a state they need legitimacy and while the shit head Monarch of Saudi Arabia warns Europe and the US about them attacking us, ISIL is threatening Saudi Arabia.

Where do you think the real threat lies? If the US wanted to stop any type of threat against us, the best way to do so would be to close the borders and tighten security there. Now, because the Democrats want all those potential latino votes, there will be none of that.

But still, do you think ISIL poses a direct threat to the US or to Saudi Arabia? Jordan? The UAE? Yeah, me too.

Of course, there’s another piece on this chess board and that’s Iran. They’re already fighting against ISIL, and winning. Why don’t we try growing up a bit, employing some fucking diplomacy and engage with Assad and Iran. After all, they live in that region and are directly threatened by ISIL whereas the US and Europe are not.

Do I expect our ‘leaders’ to act like fucking grown ups? Of course not.

Sean Hannity recently made a staggering pronouncement. And it is staggering considering his love of the US military. He stated:

‘… I don’t know if I can in good conscience recommend that any American sign up for the military…’

I know! He’s a warmonger who believes the US military is second only to Jesus! Wait just a sec and I’ll fill in the rest of the puzzle.

‘If I’m looking at us giving up all of our gains in Iraq, I don’t know if I can in good conscience recommend that any American sign up for the military under this leadership,’

Meaning, Obama gave away all that we as the indispensable nation accomplished in Iraq, so why would any American want to be betrayed like that?

Oh where oh where to begin. Hannity is a fucking douche bag and a chicken hawk coward who never, not once, questioned the lies that the Bush Administration perpetrated upon the world as justification for quite possibly the biggest blundering cluster fuck this nation has ever engaged in. The Iraq war was a criminal act and those that committed the lies should all be in prison for war crimes.

As for all that the US accomplished? Releasing terrorists and suicide bombers on the Iraqi people? The destruction of their infrastructure including schools, power, sewage treatment plants, water treatment plants and hospitals? The theft of some of the oldest archeological artifacts in the world? Horrifying birth defects from dropping radiological waste on them?

Look, joining the US military is for the stupid. It’s for those that have no problem being lied to and being used as cannon fodder for those who lie to advance their own agendas. It doesn’t matter if the asshole in the Oval office is a Republican or a Democrat. Has testicles or a vagina. Is black or white or brown or blue or whatever. They are going to do what they are instructed to do by the other assholes that own this damn country. Every day that passes, more and more innocent human beings are blown to bits because of this damnable war.

Nothing was accomplished in Iraq of any positive note. The puppet regime we allowed the Iraq people to elect is headed by a murderous bastard who set murder squads on his own people because they aren’t the proper sect of Muslim. There is a massive civil and sectarian war going on and the US military is the reason that is happening.

I reject the claim that fascist assholes like Hannity insist it’s the politicians and not the military. They’re just doing their jobs. Bull. Fucking. Shit. They weren’t drafted, they volunteered. They may have seen that it was wrong, but very few had the balls to say no. And shit bag cunts like Hannity called them traitors for it.